“Seven in 10 seniors (69%) who graduated from public and nonprofit colleges in 2014 had student loan debt, with an average of $28,950 per borrower. (Student Debt and the Class of 2014).” Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has a very audacious idea that could possibly fix this growing problem. Sander’s unique charisma, reminiscent of the sixties, is reinvigorating young voters who are very fond of his plan to pay collage tuition. His idea deals with economic concepts such as, the government’s fiscal policy and Keynesian economics ideology that plays a big role in the policies of democrats. Sanders idea sounds almost too good to be true; that is because it is. Bob Davis, senior editor at the Wall Street Journal, and Josh Mitchell, staff reporter…
The Army 's tuition assistance program was suspended on May 8, 2013 because of the budget deficit. The Army’s tuition assistance program was available for troops to complete a high school diploma, certificate program or college or master’s degree. Under the program, the Army paid 100 percent of the tuition and authorized fees charged by a school up to established limits of $250 per semester hour or credit hour or up to $4,500 per fiscal year. (Plumlee, 2013)…
The big question for students and parents today would be, are Colleges Worth the Price of Admission? The excerpt, “Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admission,” by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus is to evaluate whether or not the cost of tuition is worth the benefit anymore. Both of the Authors elaborate in this excerpt by providing problems with the higher education costs and solutions that will allow for money to be saved by students. By focusing on these points of opinion Hacker and Dreifus provide detailed examples of how to fix Americas’ higher education problems.…
The community-college tuition initiative by President Obama is a subject to unusual superlatives as it seeks to universalize two years of college. The plan integrates policies that attempt to narrow educational disparities that are characteristics of growing socioeconomic inequality in the United States. In this sense, the purported Obama tuition plan sought to facilitate an increase in the attendance of college students, therefore ensuring higher graduation rates with less debt compared to the current curriculum. The ideal, rendered most Republicans allergic to the ideology as it carried a 10-year price tag of $60 billion that included state and federal components (Alexander). However, the plan is already a subject to criticism due to its failure to account for the fact that few students under the current college…
In the world today, a college education has practically become a necessity. For many years it was an optional path that people could choose whether they wanted to continue their education or not. Today on the other hand, it has become very tough to grasp a good career and have a decent paying job without a college education. Many people go into the path of education and stack up an enormous debt that they end up spending most of their entire life paying off. For others, the admissions prices of a college education is enough to make them turn down the offer. The price of college education has been a major issue for people that can’t afford to take the debt and even for politicians who wish to approach this issue and get better prices or even…
Now let’s feed the unbelievable claim of college tuition being too high. Listen, there are multiple solutions to the problem. For one, an easy suggestion would be just…
Not all students should go to college because college can often cost more than it is worth. College tuition has risen at a significantly higher rate than inflation in the previous generation. With student loan debt having passed one trillion dollars recently, one must ask…
Putting aside community colleges free for two years, have you thought about reforming the education policy and budget? Mrs. President Obama, you have been somewhat obscure about you community college speech and plans what are you really going to bring to the table for us citizens. I would want to know hypothetically speaking, if the bill did pass and Community College was free for two years, the general population of the U.S would want to send their kids to community college because it is for free. This would create a big problem over flooding the community college systems and creating a dramatic effect on the U.C systems. This could potentially worry me as a disabled hearing student. There won’t be enough support for people like me that has needs in able to succeed in life. Our country is not the top five highest education in the world anymore Mrs. Barack Obama like it once was. Due to the lack of funding for education is not being well funded or not being funded enough, cutting off education accessibility today, it will definitely become an economic viability for tomorrow or the next decades.…
There are many people who want to attend college but struggle with the expenses. Attending college and graduating with a degree will help people live comfortably and achieve their dream job. Many good paying jobs usually require a degree of some sort and people attend school with the help of borrowing money which puts them in debt. School debt piles up after each year of school a person has attended. The problem of college debt has several solutions, and one is superior over the others.…
With schools advancing and new knowledge being obtained, Obama plans to make college more affordable. He plans on doing this by cutting the tuition fee in half. He also plans to establish a college tax credit for the students and families worth up to 10,000 dollars over for years of college. He also plans to enforce the state and local government to improve the quality of teachers, while giving the local and state governments…
Thesis: Cost of college tuition should be drastically lowered each year based on academic performance for students who are financially in need.…
In my eyes, affordable college tuition will be the best breakthrough between now and 2025. Although the idea of this sounds absurd because of how high tuition can be these days, I feel as though it is necessary for everyone in this country and other countries as well to have equal opportunities to receive a college diploma. Cost of attending a four year university is out of reach for a vast majority of young people today. Kids my age are forced to base their college choices purely on whether they either can afford to go, or can graduate with an acceptable amount of debt. By making college affordable for each individual, the opportunities for everyone will be much more extensive. This breakthrough in our society will be the best because it will,…
Three months after Ray graduated from college, his mailbox was wall to wall full of letters from the loan company.Now that school is finished, he is buried in a hole having to pay back his $60,000 loan with the accumulated interest, he had taken out to go to college.What is Ray to do? Currently, the balance of federal student loan in graduate college the nation is “$902 billion” and “$140 billion” in private student loans (Martin and Lehren 6). The debt of college in this country alone is more than “$1 trillion” causing a “financial burden” on many people (Martin and Lehren 4).Although having a college degree is comparable to an “ lifetime investment” the cost of college debt is continuing to elevate (Martin and Lehren 4). Ultimately,…
About hundred years ago most kids didn’t even go to school and many didn’t attend college, people were too busy trying to make money. So why do we have to pay most of what we earned for our education? A big reason why people in our nation don’t attend college is because they can’t afford it. Having a college degree will relieve financial stress. In addition, affordable college tuition will make more impoverished students attend college. Finally, more education will equal less violence in the world. College should become more affordable.…
One of the key factors in being able to attain the American dream is having a good education to support yourself. However a lack of quality and access to a good education has quickly become a barrier to the dream. What was once a simple solution to living a better life is now an obstacle on the road to success. For some being able to attend college is a dream all on its own. However, the reality is most people cannot afford college on their own and are forced to borrow from relatives or the bank. Having to take out a student loan has become a norm. The increasing rate of tuition is leaving “ninety four percent of students who earn a bachelors degree borrowing to pay for a higher education”. () Having to take out loans from the bank can be a worrisome thing. Luckily “in 2007, congress made sure the interest rates on many of those loans were well below…